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Oona A. Hathaway

Oona A. Hathaway (BlueskyLinkedInXMastodon) is Executive Editor at Just Security.  She is also the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, Professor of International Law and Area Studies at the Yale University MacMillan Center, Professor of the Yale University Department of Political Science, Director of the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges, and Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School.  She has been a member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for the Legal Adviser at the United States Department of State since 2005. In 2014-15, she took leave to serve as Special Counsel to the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense, where she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence. She is the Director of the annual Yale Cyber Leadership Forum. She has published more than forty law review articles, and The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (with Scott Shapiro, 2017).

Areas of Expertise: International Law, Law of Armed Conflict/IHL

Articles by this author:

An interior shot of the Peace Palace, the seat of the International Court of Justice, the principal judicial body of the United Nations.
Side view of the US Capitol Building, with a cloudy blue sky in the background
Committee chairman Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) confers with ranking member Sen. James Risch (R-ID) during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill March 10, 2022 in Washington, DC.
A wide shot of the United Nations General Assembly hall.
US Capitol Building against a sunset
A woman walks past a damaged building in Lyman, Donetsk region.
A US Predator unmanned drone armed with a missile stands on the tarmac of Kandahar military airport on June 13, 2010.
Wide view of the United Nations General Assembly Hall
Wide view of the United Nations General Assembly Hall
People collect cocoa beans at a cocoa exporter's in Abidjan, on July 3, 2019.

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